Posted on 08/29/2017 5:24:04 PM PDT by ebb tide
DISGUSTING: PARDON of FORMER SHERIFF ARPAIO
STATEMENT by CARDINAL ROGER MAHONY PARDON OF FORMER SHERIFF ARPAIO
I am deeply troubled and disgusted by President Trump's pardon of Joe Arapaio, former sheriff of Maricopa County in Arizona. The former sheriff's tenure was marked by racial profiling, harassment of our Latino brothers and sisters, and the disruption of immigrant communities. He created fear and terror among so many immigrants, and not just in Arizona. Children here in California were afraid to go to school because of what they heard from Phoenix. He defied a court order to discontinue to round up immigrants and to detain them in inhumane conditions.
Rather than upholding it, President Trump's pardon flouts and undermines the rule of law. It also sends a dangerous signal to law enforcement throughout the country that they, too, can ignore due process and profile and harass persons of color, especially Latinos. This pardon rekindles the fear and terror so rampant among our immigrant peoples. The police need good relationships with immigrants, and our immigrants need an understanding and helpful police force to protect them.
It is clear that the President and his administration is intent on deporting as many immigrants as possible, regardless of their due process rights and the equities they have built in our country. In line with this goal, I am also troubled that the president may remove protections from young immigrants who qualify for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. I urge him to find the moral courage to preserve the DACA program and to defend it rigorously in federal court.
May all Catholics and people of good will raise their voices and stand up for our immigrant brothers and sisters during this difficult period in their lives and in the life of our country.
[August 28, 2017]
I am one Catholic who praises both Trump and Sheriff Arpaio for upholding the sovereignty and laws of the U.S.
FU very much, Father
Get your nose out of politics or start paying taxes.
How often was he disturbed by Obama’s or Clinton’s pardons?
He was OK with Obama pardoning over 1500 rapists, drug pushers, drug users and all around traitors though. Caesar=Caesar...God=God !!!!
Alien Illegal immigration flouts and undermines the rule of law. There, fixed it.
How does a pardon based on the Constitution flaunt the rule of law?
I am deeply troubled by the Leftists occupying the Catholic hierarchy.
The Catholic Church is nothing more than a Marxist front.
I’m Catholic, but Phony Cardinal Mahoney needs to go away. After hiding child molesting Priests for years, he really should not be judging anyone’s decisions.
It's almost like Trump extended sanctuary to Joe or something.
Cardinal Baloney looking for another 15 minutes of fame?
Perhaps he should remember what is used to pave the floors of hell.
Blah, blah, blah.
Cardinal Mahoney can move to mexico and plea his case in front of the drug cartel backed government there then.
Stop making all of Mexico’s problems US problems. Mexico IS NOT part of the US.
If mexico wants to continue meddling in US affairs, then we are this close to giving them the scorched earth treatment.
Play with fire, get burned.
Pope Mark is disgusting.
Continuing, the obviously angry priest recalled that no matter how much estrogen he put in his body, he just could not become the nun tht he wanted to be. So dammit, he decided to dedicate the rest of his life to cooking pizzas and trying to grow some breasts.
As a Catholic, I send a special STFU to this @ss parading around as a holy man.
Sheriff Joe is Roman Catholic and he is a good man.
That reminds me, how the hell did that guy stay of of prison? Go crawl back under your rock, your eminence.
Do you think this heretic Cardinal ever used the word “disgusted” in reference to terrorists, abortionists, pornographers, hedonistic Hollywood celebrities, illegals who engaged in robbery, rape or murder of innocent American citizens?
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